The Pregnancy was the Crisis, Not the Abortion / Charlotte Shane
This Is Hell!
This Is Hell!
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🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Oh, Oh, Make it back a time. |
| 0:44.0 | Take it back. This. This is hell. |
| 1:07.0 | live from late capitalism where property has more rights than people. |
| 1:15.0 | This is hell and boy is that true when it comes to women's reproductive health care. |
| 1:22.0 | When we are told stories about unexpected... comes to women's reproductive health care. |
| 1:22.6 | When we are told stories about unexpected pregnancies, when it is mentioned in the news or |
| 1:28.8 | on pandering mid-morning or early afternoon talk shows, when in movies TV or on the stage and |
| 1:35.5 | often in music those stories are usually filled with anguish with uncertainty |
| 1:41.8 | with the intense drama of making a decision that we are often told will have a huge impact on the rest of any woman's life mentally but also potentially physically. |
| 1:55.0 | As a man I cannot imagine what it is like but I am led to believe by our media, |
| 2:01.0 | culture and society, that I should be absolutely certain that this must be |
| 2:07.4 | one of the most trying times of any woman's life. |
| 2:11.4 | But it's not just the decision-making that must be difficult when it comes to an unexpected pregnancy. |
| 2:17.0 | If the woman decides to end the pregnancy, that physical process I've been told is invasive often painful. There's the suffering through the |
| 2:25.9 | decision-making process than the suffering during the abortion itself if that |
| 2:30.0 | is decided by the woman to take place then then there's the post-procedure experience |
| 2:34.8 | and which we're told is also often very very challenging. |
| 2:40.0 | But what if all this drama is exaggerated, overdramatized, over-traumatized? |
| 2:47.3 | What if women simply know they want to go through with the pregnancy or not, that either decision can be just as definitive. |
| 2:58.4 | What if the procedure is not that big of a deal or wasn't until women's accessibility to drugs like |
| 3:03.9 | methotrexate in Mipipurstone started becoming limited. These simple |
| 3:10.6 | injections are safe and easy to administer with little if any |
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